License plate assumptions

[hbevert]

Last week, when we were at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana, a man driving a car with Saskatchewan plates pulled up by our car with the Alberta plates, got out to look at the hill we were looking at and asked, "Fellow Canadians, eh?" We could have hugged him right there just for using "eh?" because we had found out that after

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[akitrom]

It may help to feign ignorance of straight bacon, caffeinated Mountain Dew, and paper dollar bills.

When I've hosted Canadian visitors, one of their typical astonishments was that U.S. restaurants seemed to put sugar in everything. "Hamburger buns? Was that really necessary?"

[aaron_pike]

So, do you guys now say "eh?" Um ... eh?

[hbevert]

While we were in Canada, I sprinkled my conversation with the very occasional "eh?" and only using it in the form of "wouldn't you agree?" I use it less and less here.